Reviews

Welcome Marhaba

Zen Zila

Soldiering on, decades after the demise of role models Carte de Sejour (Rachid Taha's old band), Zen Zila is perhaps...

Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2014

Goshawk

Carole Pegg & Radik Tülüsh

Here's an intriguing prospect. Radik Tülüsh, an esteemed Tuvan throat singer and a member of the long-running group Huun Huur...

Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2014

Lolo

Soneros All Stars

There is no way you are going to be able to sit still when listening to Swedish producer Jan Bogdan...

Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2014

La Rumba SoYo

Ricardo Lemvo & Makina Loca

This is the sixth album (excluding a retrospective compilation) of Ricardo Lemvo's Afro-Cuban music – a blend of salsa with...

Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2014

Dois

Batida

Pedro Coquenão's musical vision began as a radio show tracing his Angolan roots from his adopted home of Portugal. Creative...

Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2014

Dhaalu Raa

Ahmed Nasheed

The Maldives would be hard put to find a better soundtrack for its 50th-anniversary independence celebrations next year than this....

Reviewed in issue October/2014

Cor Amant

Tokso Folk String Quartet

The textures and timbres produced by this all-female string quartet are quite unlike any other. Tokso bring together the reedy,...

Reviewed in issue October/2014

One Blinding Dusky Dusk

Whiskey Moonface

Born out of a meeting of musical minds in an East London pub, this debut album is straight from the...

Reviewed in issue October/2014

Benyoro

Benyoro

‘What we really do is play praise music; we’ve just sped it up a little,’ explains Sam Dickey, guitarist and...

Reviewed in issue October/2014

Oj Tak!

Chłopcy Kontra Basia

Frightened of Polish music by the scraping fiddles and raw vocals of the Warsaw Village Band? Then maybe the mellower,...

Reviewed in issue October/2014